Acineria uncinata Tucolesco 1962
- Dataset
- An annotated and revised checklist of pleurostome ciliates (Protista: Ciliophora: Litostomatea) from Slovakia, Central Europe
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Chromista
- phylum
- Ciliophora
- class
- Gymnostomatea
- order
- Pleurostomatida
- family
- Litonotidae
- genus
- Acineria
- species
- Acineria uncinata
description
Main morphological characters (according to Foissner et al. 1995). Size 30 – 60 × 10 – 15 µm in vivo. Body lanceolate with hook-like curved anterior body end and narrowly to broadly rounded posterior body end. Two macronuclear nodules with a single micronucleus in between. Contractile vacuole subterminal. Extrusomes rodlike, about 2 – 3 µm long, scattered in cytoplasm and attached only to anterior portion of oral bulge. Somatic ciliary pattern Litonotus - like; about 3 right and 2 left kineties.
discussion
Nomenclature. Tirjaková (1998) incorrectly ascribed this species to Dujardin (1841) instead of Tucolesco (1962).
distribution
Distribution. Acineria uncinata was reported from the benthos of the Karlova Ves (Bratislava) Branch of the Danube River (Szentivány & Tirjaková 1994); from activated sludge of sand filters in an indoor school swimming pool in Bratislava (Totková et al. 1994); from a groundwater vein in the Vtáčnik Mountain Range (Krno et al. 1995); from the littoral zone of the Danube River and its through-flowing river arms near the hydroelectric power structures in Gabčíkovo (Matis & Tirjaková 1995); from gravel and debris of the spring area below the Veľký Javorník, Malé Karpaty Mts (Tirjaková 1997 a, Tirjaková & Stloukal 2004); from an oligotrophic stream in the National Nature Reserve Rozsutec, Malá Fatra Mts (Tirjaková 1997 b); from the benthos of the Hron River and its tributaries (Tirjaková 1998); from the pelagial of the Morava and Danube River (Baláži & Matis 2002 a, 2002 b); from the benthos of the Gidra River (Tirjaková 2003 a); from tree-holes of Quercus dalechampii in Lošonec-lom quarry (Tirjaková & Vďačný 2005); from benthos of the Ulička stream in the Poloniny National Park (Novikmec et al. 2007); from sediment in the littoral zone of the upper Váh River (Tirjaková & Vďačný 2013 a); from sediment in the Zubrovica stream, Low Tatra Mts (Tirjaková & Vďačný 2013 b).
Name
- Homonyms
- Acineria uncinata Tucolesco 1962